Comments on: Holliday wants to play for the New York Yankeeshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:21:08 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Hannah Wolfinghttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-3/#comment-7585
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:47:56 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7585Here’s a site similar to elance.com but aimed at multi-year ouitsourcing contracts. OutsourcerMasrketplace.com
]]>By: comnsnsehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-3/#comment-7584
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:27:04 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7584When will it end? The never ending nonsense that the Yankees will destroy baseball because they have the dollars to do so.The Yankees have not won a pennant since 2003 nor a World Series since 2000.What has their money purchased them until this year.In addition,the Angels,Red Sox and other teams were all in on the Sabbathia,Teixiera,Burnett sweeps.None of this is relevant of course because the Yankees and other bigger market teams that control their over air rights must spend the money! The Yankees have created a 3.5 billion dollar business,which is solely dependent on putting a team on the field that can compete for championships every year.200mm.per year is a very acceptable labor cost to support a 3.5 billion dollar business.Baseball is the only sport that follows the precepts of genuine capitalism.So if your looking for a sport that practises socialism try the NFL where teams can be deadbeats for years but ownership still makes a fortune! Overexpansion is the problem in professional sports,reduce the number of teams and you will rapidly see a more competitive balance.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:15:29 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7583FORGET HOLIDAY, X-MAN , DAMON WILL BE BACK, MATSUI MAY HAVE TO WALK,
HIS KNEE IS BAD.
EVERY PLAYER WANT’S TO PLAY IN NEW YORK, IF THEY SAY THEY DON’T, IT’S A LIE AND THEY DIDN’T RECEIVE A OFFER, PEDRO WAS WAITING FOR THE YANKEES BUT DIDN’T GET A OFFER SO HE SIGNED WITH NEW YORK METS.
ALSO, AFTER A TEAMS GENERAL MANGER REALIZES AT THE ALL STAR GAME THEY CAN’T WIN THEY CALL THE YANKEES TO DUMP SALARY, SO THE YANKEES
CAN PICK UP WHAT THEY NEED FOR THE STRETCH RUN, THEN THE TEAMS FANS START HATING ON NEW YORK, OH WELL THE WORLD SERIES TROPHY WILL BE BACK WHERE IT BELONGS , NEW YORK, THEY WILL HAVE TO SCRUB IT HARD TTO CLEAN HER UP, THOSE DIRTY PHILADELPHIANS HAD THEIR PAWS ALL OVER IT.
BUH BYE
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:07:58 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7582YEAH, THE HALL OF FAME……
MANNYWOOD…………..
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:07:30 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7581YEAH, THE HALL OF FAME……
MANNYWOOD…………..
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:22 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7580Wrong Craig, Manny came to New York from the Dominican
as a Teenager and attended Washington Heights…..
alejandro gonzalez, you are a JERK ……..
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:51:53 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7579Thank you Rich!! Couldn’t have said it better!
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45:56 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7578NAILED IT!
]]>By: scatterbrianhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-2/#comment-7577
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:31:07 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7577@Ed Ott:
You cannot be serious, can you? The Red Sox have been in the playoffs six of the last seven years and won two world championships. Have you already become that spoiled?
]]>By: jaymenhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-2/#comment-7576
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:25:40 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7576don’t wnat him, don’t need him. The Yanks will re-sign Damon to a 2 yr deal, with an option for the third year… Bank on it.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:08:07 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7575This is just a Scott Boras rerun over and over ploy. Everytime one of his cash cows becames a free agents he tries to link them to the Yankees simply to drive the price up on everyone else. The next thing you’ll hear from Boras on Holiday is that he is a $200 million dollar contract player.
Regarding the dimwits who say baseball is over if the Yankees get Holiday: the Yankees have had the highest payroll over the past decade and have not won a thing. Last year they cut millions upon millions of driftwood in Giambi ($23 million), Messina ($12 million), Carl Pavano ($10 million), Bobby Abreu ($16 million)LaTroy Hawkins, Kyle Farnsworth, Sidney Ponson, Ivan Rodriguez, Richie Sexton, , etc. Reworked Andy Pettitte’s contract; and they spent $18 million on Texiera, $20 million on Sabathia, and $16 million on Burnett. The spent less on the 3 new players then they took off their payroll. So stop whining like little babies.
The Yankees would take Jason Bay over Holiday, because Cashman knows Bay has ice in his veins and Holiday is milk toast. He talked to a lot of people before he brought in last year’s group of players, it worked perfect and proved to be true, and he’ll do it again this off season. If the Yankees have a choice they’ll take Bay over Holiday any day.
Also, keep in mind they have Matsui ($12 million), Damon ($13 million), Xavier Nady ($7 million), and Jose Moline ($2 million) coming off their payroll this off-season. They’ll bring in a leftfielder and/or a starter or 8th inning reliever depending upon whether they put both Chamberlain and Hughes in the starting rotation or only one of them starting.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:38:31 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7574well, we turned over our government to the PACs and the lobbyists, our military over to the defence contractors, and our economy to Wall St. might as well sub-contract out our favorite sport to another personal agenda driven manipulator.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:28 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7573I wrote a post about that on Tuesday, ofus. Conflict of interest in my view.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:26:58 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7572interesting that no one points out that Boras is also Damon’s agent. Shall we cut all the BS and just make Ole’ Scott the Commish?
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:06 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7571Craig, Manny is not from New York. I think it’s one of the Jupiter moons that he hails from. He is WAY OUT there.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:16:56 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7570You’re right. Lincecum is better than any pitcher in the AL East, and Cain, Billingsley, Webb, Haren, Scherzer, Kershaw, Peavy (when he was there), Oswalt, Rodriguez, Gallardo, and Zambrano are no slouches.
]]>By: Willhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-2/#comment-7569
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:40:31 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7569Perhaps what Alejandro meant was that Manny should go back to his own planet.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:25:03 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7568

I’m not sold on this guy, as a Yankee fan I’m not for this move.

It entirely depends on the $ and length of contract. 3-4 years in the $15-18M range is justifiable for him. He’s been worth $32M, $28M, and $25M according to fangraphs for the last three full years. Anything longer than 4 and you hit his (eventual) decline phase.
He’s also a far better fielder than most give him credit for. His three year UZR is 14.2, 9.1 and 5.3. But he’d be a huge upgrade defensively over Damon who has had one positive UZR since ’02.
See my comment above for how well he hit in the AL.http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1873&position=OF#value

]]>By: AJhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2009/10/22/holliday-wants-to-play-for-the-new-york-yankees/comment-page-2/#comment-7567
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:18:34 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7567I’m strongly subscribing to the theory that this is dirtbag Scott Boras’ deliberate intention to play the Yankees card in order to drive up the price with whomever in the National League wants to bid for Matt Holliday. What he does is give everyone the impression that the Yankees may be involved in any bidding war for a player, so if there’s a NL team seriously interested in Holliday, i.e., the Atlanta Braves, they’ll need to ante up in order to sign him. Anytime the Yankees are even perceived to be involved or interested in a player causes the bidding to go up. Boras has done this many times before. This kind of news “leak” happens any time he’s involved in any negotiation.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:57:58 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1790#comment-7566Baseball right now is just like poker who ever has the most money wins.
The Yankees have the most money.
If the Yankees kill the Phil’s then that will be the beginning of the end of baseball.
Not too many states will build new ballparks for their teams in this economy.
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